The Walk From The Garden

I’m excited to announce that in April 2015 I will be performing the role of ‘Eve’ in Jonathan Dove’s Opera “The Walk from the Garden” with Scottish Opera’s Connect Company.

Alongside me performing the role of ‘Adam’ will be the lovely tenor Glen Cunningham from Nairn in Scotland. After accepting the role in September, I have had the pleasure to work with him whilst learning the score.

Glen Cunningham

TheScottish Opera Connect team have been wonderfully welcoming and it has been fabulous working with Chris Gray, (who is our conductor for the project), Laura Baxter, (who has been coaching us), Lliam Paterson, Iona Jack, Roseann Gross and Donna Macpherson. I am extremely excited to begin production rehearsals with Scottish Opera Connect Company and our director Julie Brown this month. I will tell you more about it as we progress.

The Scottish Opera Connect Chorus are a very talented bunch, last year I heard them preparing for Dr Ferret’s Bad Medicine Roadshow, which will be performed in the same billing. Both are ‘New productions’ and it’s exciting to be working on an Opera by a British Composer which hasn’t been performed regularly before.

Thank you, it is most exciting, my friend from Youth+ Manchester Sam Pyatt https://www.facebook.com/sampyattphotographer took the photo, he’s had a super busy year having his work published in Cosmo, ElleUK and Vogue so I don’t know how much longer he’ll be able to do my little shoots .

Thanks Dan it’s great to have something challenging to get stuck into, just having the opportunity to work with the music and production staff from Scottish Opera is thrilling, their educational outreach program is a fantastic scheme.

15 weeks sounds like a long time, Adam and Eve make their way into an unknown world with all the insecurities that entails and it also deals with man’s impact on the planet so it’s a fascinating project.

May the Lord bless you on your role in the Garden at the opera. I know the Lord will use you to His glory to shine the light on the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ. I will be praying for your success. May the Lord bless you richly.